CoffeeGeekJan 10, 2025

I'm confused about something and hope some tech-savvy folks here can answer:

Why would some spam bot all of a sudden flood the signups for our newsletter on CoffeeGeek? Today we've had well over 500 signups -- all yahoo accounts and all obviously fake - via our website's signup form.

I don't get it. AFAIK, they can't "hack" anything to gain our mailing list, etc.

Show threadIsaac MJan 10, 2025
@coffeegeek Maybe they are testing out some type of hacking process/scripts that would be used for a different attack / different site later on?
Show threadCoffeeGeekJan 10, 2025
@ossa I'm gobsmaked how they get by the captcha. I guess the V3 captcha from google isn't working as well as it should.
Show threadEndareth
@coffeegeek @ossa Bots can generally do at least as well as humans for solving captchas these days, just take a look at everything that shows up at https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bot+solving+captcha+v3&t=ffip&ia=web
bot solving captcha v3 at DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

Jan 11, 2025 at 5:09amWeb